Previous events

Department seminar. Tore Adam Reiremo is a Researcher at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo.

The invited speaker is Megha Padi, Assistant Professor in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Arizona Cancer Centre. The title of her talk is "Translating network biology into new therapies for rare cancers".

Department seminar. Erlend Magnussen Fleisje is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: “Evidence on gender-differences and efficiency in an exam appeal system.”

Vivian Zhang from Cornell University presents her research on how caregiver-infant turn-taking facilitates communicative development 

A discussion of representations of flight, homelessness, border crossing, belonging and identity formation in recent as well as older literature, with an emphasis on literature's connections to the world of politics and ethics.
 

Department seminar. Kyle Herkenhoff is an Associate Professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. He will present the paper: "Welfare Costs of Credit Card Oligopoly" (written with Juan M. Morelli).

Ron Darvin (University of British Columbia, Canada) discusses how applied linguistics research can address the compelling issues of language, technology and identity that confront us in the age of AI 

Department seminar. Dave Donaldson is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Language and Cognition Forum is happy to announce that PhD student Akvile Sinkevičiūtė (Northeastern University London ) will present her work on bilinguals' colour discrimination at Henrik Wergelands House on June 14th. 

Department seminar. Yoto Yotov is a professor at the School of Economics of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University.

Robert Aronowitz is Professor, History and Sociology of Science, and the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

Department seminar. Xavier Jaravel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Five MA students in Multilingualism will present the results of their psycholinguistic projects as part of the MULTI4150 - Project-based Research in Multilingualism course.

Department seminar. Bradley Setzler is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University. He will present the paper: “Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry” (written with Kory Kroft, Yao Luo and Magne Mogstad). 

Sverre Stausland will present his research on the origin of the word ordskifte 

Department seminar. Manasi Deshpande is an Associate Professor of Economics with tenure at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago.

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies, and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Lecture by Miyo Tanaka, second-year master's student in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights at the UiO. 

Department seminar. Guri Natalie Jordbakke is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian Institute of Transport Economics. She will present the paper: "How parking regulation affects the consumption of private cars – identification through a natural experiment."

Professor James Kirby from LMU Munich will present his research on perceptual similarity and acoustic variability as filters on tonal variation and change

Department seminar. Alexis Akira Toda is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego. He will present the paper: "Housing Bubbles with Phase Transitions" (written with Tomohiro Hirano).

Iida Pöllänen (University of Tampere) will present her current postdoctoral research about the Ibsen legacy in the Harlem Renaissance.

Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.